title: The USSR's new alcohol policy.
abstract: Alcoholism, long a major health and social problem in the USSR, came under renewed and determined attack in 1985. Already significant gains have been made, but there are also signs that the problem may to some extent have been driven underground.
authors.affiliation: All-Union Research Centre on Medicobiological Problems of Narcology, USSR Ministry of Health, Moscow.
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Ivanets
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Lukomskaya
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014586:USSR